02869nam 2200553Ia 450 991082204500332120230829001715.00-8040-4025-7(CKB)1000000000521657(EBL)1743689(OCoLC)191949010(SSID)ssj0000285008(PQKBManifestationID)11209868(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285008(PQKBWorkID)10277631(PQKB)11002635(MiAaPQ)EBC1743689(MdBmJHUP)muse9447(Au-PeEL)EBL1743689(CaPaEBR)ebr10156425(EXLCZ)99100000000052165720051208d2006 ub pengurcn|||||||||txtccrA trick of sunlight[electronic resource] poems /Dick DavisAthens Swallow Press/Ohio University Pressc20061 online resource (63 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8040-1089-7 0-8040-1088-9 Chèvrefeuille; Getting Away; Water; Happiness; Hérédia; The Man from Provins; Before Sleep; The Old Model's Advice to the New Model; Edgar; Listening; What I Think; The Scholar as a Naughty Boy; Anglais Mort à Santa Barbara; The Skeptic; Driving; Flying Back; Three Emilys; Turgeniev and Friends; Under 6 a Bottle; "They are not long, the days of wine and roses . . . "; Shopping; Chagrin; Pasts; A Visit to Grandmother's; Can We?; Cythère; Young Scholar; Farsighted; On a Remark of Karl Kraus; Preferences; Small Talk; The Phoenix; Dis's DefenseWilliam MacGonagall Welcomes the Initiative for a Greater Role for Faith-Based Education William Morris; Driving Westward; Are we going the same way?; Emblems; A Mystery Novel; NotesIn his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us. But A Trick of Sunlight introduces a new theme that revolves around the idea of happiness-is it possible, must it be illusory, is its fleetingness an essential part of its nature so that disillusion is inevitable? Many of the poems are shaded by the poet's awareness of growing older, and by the ways that this both shuts doPoetry, Modern21st centuryEnglish poetry21st centuryPoetry, ModernEnglish poetry821/.914Davis Dick1945-1618833MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822045003321A trick of sunlight3950782UNINA